OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Peacekeeping is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Just Different Hats? Comparing UN and Non-UN Peacekeeping	25
Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm	22
Ceasefire Success: A Conceptual Framework	15
Downsizing in UN Peacekeeping: The Impact on Civilian Peacekeepers and the Missions Employing Them	14
Perceptions of Peace Agreements and Political Trust in Post-War Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland	13
Diversionary Peace: International Peacekeeping and Domestic Civil-Military Relations	12
Peacekeeping Prevention: Strengthening Efforts to Preempt Conflict-related Sexual Violence	11
Institutional Choice, Risk, and Control: The G5 Sahel and Conflict Management in the Sahel	10
The Dark Side of Institutional Collaboration: How Peacekeeping-counterterrorism Convergences Weaken the Protection of Civilians in Mali	9
Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level: Introducing the RADPKO Dataset	9
Understanding Ceasefires	9
‘Together at the Heart’: Familial Relations and the Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants	9
Training the Troops on Gender: The Making of a Transnational Practice	8
Home-Grown Peace: Civil Society Roles in Ceasefire Monitoring	7
Human Security and the Stabilization Mandate of MINUSCA	7
Watchdogs of Pause: The Challenges of Ceasefire Monitoring in Yemen	6
Ceasefires and State Order-Making in Naga Northeast India	6
When are Women Deployed? Operational Uncertainty and Deployment of Female Personnel to UN Peacekeeping	6
Sharing Sovereignty in the Streets: International Policing in Fragile States	6
An Institutional Explanation of Troop Contributions in UN Peacekeeping Missions	6
Protection of Civilians and Peacekeeping’s Accountability Deficit	5
The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies: From Norm Entrepreneurship to Organized Hypocrisy	5
Peace Journalism Strategy for Creating a Public Value Sphere	5
MINUSMA and the Militarization of UN Peacekeeping	5
Twenty Years of Externally Promoted Security Assistance in Iraq: Changing Approaches and Their Limits	4

A Perturbed Peace: Applying Complexity Theory to UN Peacekeeping	4
Overlapping Agendas and Peacekeepers’ Ability to Protect	4
Trade Potential and UN Peacekeeping Participation	4
Blue Helmets, Armed Groups, and Peace at Stake: Does Combat Motivation Matter for Robust Peacekeeping to Succeed?	4
Exploring the Compatibility of Multiple Missions in UN Peace Operations	4
Protection of Civilians Mandates and ‘Collateral Damage’ of UN Peacekeeping Missions: Histories of Refugees from Darfur	4
Beyond Dues: The Role of U.S. Military Aid in UN Peacekeeping Operations	3
Making the International Work: Police Training Experts as Brokers for International Missions	3
A Review of South Africa’s Terms in the United Nations Security Council	3
The Roles and Practices of Civil Society Actors in Police Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Activism, Expertise, Knowledge Production	3
Strategic Deployment of UN Political Missions to Replace UN Peacekeeping Operations: The Demand and Supply Sides of Transition Logic	3
Women as the Essential Protectors of Children?: Gender and Child Protection in UN Peacekeeping	3
The Peacekeeping Deployment that Never was: Domestic Considerations Behind Brazil’s Decision not to Send Troops to MINUSCA	3
Moving Beyond Antagonisms: Changing Masculinities in Post-Conflict Militaries	3
Climate-Sensitive Programming in International Security: An Analysis of UN Peacekeeping Operations and Special Political Missions	3
Deciding on the Tit for the Tat: Decision-Making in the Wake of Ceasefire Violations	3
Sensemaking Processes in Complex Peace Operations: A Means of Adapting to the Dynamism of ‘the Local’	3
Once and Future Peacemakers: Continuity of Third-party Involvement in Civil War Peace Processes	3
Reflection on Labour Hierarchies in Peacekeeping: A Study on the Operational Experiences of Military Peacekeepers	2
Sweden’s 2017–18 UNSC Formula: Mobilizing the MFA’s Competitive Advantages, Highlighting Africa, and Boosting the E10	2
Live and Let Live: Explaining Long-term Truces in Separatist Conflicts	2
Reaching for the Impossible?: Coordinating DDR and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire	2
Love, Sex, and Exchange in the Context of Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo	2
In Memory of Peacekeepers: Belgian Blue Helmets and Belgian Politics	2
Beyond the Local in Peacebuilding: Thinking Scalar	2
The Cat in the Hat: Can Technocratic Peacebuilding Lead to Transformative Peace?	2
Exploring the UK's Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention	2
The Southern African Development Community’s Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM): Policymaking and Effectiveness	2
Choosing the Flag in the Name of Peace: Why Have the Baltic States (Re)turned to the United Nations?	2
Making Peace When the Whole World Has Come to Fight: The Mediation of Internationalized Civil Wars	2
The Dance of Peace and Justice: Local Perceptions of International Peacebuilding in West Africa	2
The Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq: Missed Opportunities for Development and Good Governance	2
Can the Rebel Body Function without its Visible Heads? The Role of Mid-Level Commanders in Peacebuilding	2
How Do Non-UN Peacekeepers Affect Civilian Violence? An Instrument Investigation	2
Everyday Police Work Abroad: A Story of Experience, Continuity and Change in Multilateral Missions	2
Fluid State-Building in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Taking Advantage of the 2003 U.S.-Led Invasion	2
Civil Conflict Fragmentation and the Effectiveness of UN Peacekeeping Operations	2
Explaining Police Misconduct in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, 2010-2019	2
Red under Blue: Chinese Humanitarian Action in UN Peacekeeping Missions	1
Overcoming ‘Smallness’: Niger as an Elected Member of the UN Security Council, 2020–2022	1
Haiti and the Pitfalls of Sharing Police Powers	1
(UN-)Protected Elections – Left for Good? Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Its Effects on Violence During Electoral Periods in War-Affected Countries	1
Post Conflict Justice, Peacekeeping, and Civil Conflict Recurrence	1
The United Nations After 75: Assessing Current Understandings, Charting Fruitful Research Agendas	1
Non-Democratic Regimes and Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations	1
Ceasefire Rationales: A Comparative Study of Ceasefires in the Moro and Communist Conflicts in the Philippines	1
A Shrinking Humanitarian Space: Peacekeeping Stabilization Projects and Violence in Mali	1
Italy’s Military Operations Abroad (1945–2020): Data, Patterns, and Trends	1
More Than Just Productive? Evaluating Germany’s Term at the UN Security Council 2019–2020	1
State Responsibility and Accountability in UN Peacekeeping: The Case ofThe Mothers of Srebrenica v. The Netherlands	1

For a Dynamic Approach to Stabilization	1
UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects	1
Small States’ Pursuit of Impact at the UN Security Council: The Case of Tunisia 2020–2021	1
2003–2023: A Twenty-Year Reflection of the Iraqi Invasion, Occupation and Resulting Interventions	1
Legitimacy of Using Force as a Fundamental Ingredient for Military Motivation in Robust Peacekeeping Operations	1
An Illusion of Empowerment? A Twenty-Year Review of United Nations Reports on Localization in Iraq	1
Female Peacekeepers: UNSC Resolution 1325 and the Persistence of Gender Stereotypes in the Chilean Armed Forces	1
A Perpetual (Liberal) Peace? An Empirical Assessment of an Enduring Peacebuilding Model	1
UN Peacekeeping Missions in the Middle East: A Twenty-First Century Review	1
The ICC and R2P: Complementary or Contradictory?	1
Divided Opposition, Fragmented Statebuilding: Elite Bargaining in Pre- and Post-2003 Iraq	1
Who Can Go First? Evidence From UN PKOs in Africa in 1990-2016	1
Leadership Changes and Civil War Peace Agreements: Does Who Comes to Power Influence the Implementation?	1
The Female ‘Boot on the Ground’: Indian Ambivalence Over Gender Mainstreaming in UN Peacekeeping Operations	1